Dr. Xavier Ruyra
Address: Carrer de Vilana, 12, 08022 Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08022, Spain
Gender: Male
About the Doctor / Professional
Dr. Xavier Ruyra is the Director of the Heart Surgery Program of the Centro Médico Teknon. Grupo Quirónsalud and El Pilar Hospital/ Sant Jordi Cardio-vascular Center and is Head of the Heart Surgery Service of the Trias y Pujol University Hospital of Badalona. He has been educated and has completed specialization studies at European and North American Centres. Dr. Xavier Ruyra is one of the greatest experts in valve repair using the Ross procedure, thus preventing their replacement with artificial prosthetics and in reconstructive surgery of the heart chambers.
He is a specialist in minimally invasive heart surgery and in bloodless heart surgery and has developed multiple surgical techniques that are minimally damaging to the patient’s heart and organism (coronary surgery with the heart beating, extracorporeal minicirculation devices, atrial fibrillation surgery or bloodless heart surgery).
He combines his work as a surgeon with teaching at the University of Barcelona where he is an Associate Cardiac Surgery Professor. He has published 51 articles in specialized journals and 3 chapters of books; he has also participated in many international conferences and seminars and has developed several patents for devices used for valve repair or reconstruction.
Degree: European and North American Centres
Residency: University of Barcelona
- Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol and Cardiac Surgery. Heart Institute QS Teknon, Barcelona - to date
- Director of the Heart Institute QS Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona - to date
- Associate Professor of Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery at Univaersitat Aotónoma de Barcelona
- 1999 – 2000 Cardiac Surgeon. Hospital General Vall d´Hebron, Barcelona
- 1997 – 1999 Chief of Section in Cardiac Surgery - Instituto Galego de Medicina Técnica & Hospital do Meixoeiro
- 1996 – 1997 Attending Surgeon. Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona
- Prosthetic band for mitral valve repair. WIPO patent application WO/2011/113986
- Device for repairing mitral valve insufficiency. US 2010/0241222A1
- Heart Valve sewing cuff. WO 2012/162522. Main inventor
- Prosthetic band for mitral valve repair. WIPO patent application WO/2011/113986
- Device for repairing mitral valve insufficiency. US 2010/0241222A1
- Heart Valve sewing cuff. WO 2012/162522. Main inventor
- Aortic Valve Repair
- Atherosclerosis Treatment
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Balloon Valvuloplasty
- Beating Heart Coronary Bypass (OPCAB or Off-Pump CABG)
- Bloodless Surgery
- Cardiology Consultation
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery
- Heart Surgery
- Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB)
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Mitral Valve Repair
- Mitral Valve Replacement
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Ross Procedure
- Surgery for Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Spanish Society of Cardiac Surgery
- European Board of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Catalan Organisation of Transplantation (OCATT)
- Associate Professor of Surgery at Autonomous University of Barcelona
- Member of Medical Board CM Teknon Campus
- International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery
- Member of Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques de Catalunya I Balears
- Vocal de la Comissió Assesora d´obtenció I Trasplantament de Teixit Vascular OCATT)
